Olympia Dukakis Quotes
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.
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If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.
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It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.
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We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
